The Far Eastern University Center for the Arts (FCA) presents the FEU Bamboo Band in a special concert titled “Ascend: Reaching New Heights in Music” on April 26 starting at 6 p.m. at the FEU Auditorium. “Ascend” marks a dual celebration: the university’s 97th founding anniversary and its auditorium’s 76th year. In honor of these...
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Once more on Good Friday: Casa San Miguel’s Lenten tradition
SAN ANTONIO, ZAMBALES—For 32 years, Casa San Miguel, an arts and culture sanctuary in this coastal town, has marked Good Friday with an unconventional Lenten tradition: a stirring rendition of Joseph Haydn’s “Seven Last Words of Christ.” The event blends live classical music with performance-reading, reimagining the centuries-old masterpiece into a shared experience of reflection, silence,...
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Student groups win awards for innovative environment projects
UP Circuit and Santa Elena High School STEM Club bested other campus organizations in a recent competition aimed at encouraging the youth to help develop and adopt innovative projects to sustain environment practices in the communities. The contest was organized by UP-Cifal Philippines and UP Asian Center for youth organizations that implemented such sustainability and...
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With a new president, TIP looks forward to bigger strides in ‘technopreneurship’
The Technological Institute of the Philippines (TIP) begins a new chapter with the appointment of Angelo Lahoz as president. The announcement was made by TIP chair Elizabeth Quirino-Lahoz last Feb. 21 during the school’s 63rd anniversary celebration. The new TIP president is the firstborn son of Quirino-Lahoz and Angel Lahoz and the grandson of the...
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KCC Philippines named ‘2025 Most Outstanding Korean Cultural Center’
The Korean Cultural Center (KCC) in the Philippines was named the most outstanding during a recent meeting hosted by Korea’s Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and attended by KCC directors and cultural promotion officials stationed all over the world. The meeting was held on March 4–7 at the Korean Culture and Information Service in...
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Acclaimed tenor Arthur Espiritu comes home for one-night-only concert in MiraNila
The Filipino American tenor Arthur Espiritu, described as “a rare spinto-tenor in the tradition of Pavarotti,” will perform in a one-night-only concert on April 2 at the MiraNila Heritage House & Library in Quezon City. Presented by MiraNila in partnership with Leon Gallery and Gallery MiraNila of The Blue Leaf with support from the Bizu...
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To remember and preserve the legacies of Ninoy, Cory and Noynoy Aquino
TARLAC CITY, TARLAC—A crowd of more than 200 people showed up at the reopening of the Aquino Center and Museum on Feb. 24, the eve of the 39th anniversary of the Edsa People Power Revolution. Family members, friends and admirers of the late anti-dictatorship and democracy icons, former senator Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr. and former...
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What to expect on Edsa
On Feb. 25, 1986, Filipinos’ collective pursuit of democracy won over a dictatorship. Today, 39 years later, they commemorate the Edsa People Power Revolution that forced Ferdinand Marcos Sr. and his family to flee abroad. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has declared Feb. 25 as a “special working holiday” under Proclamation No. 727. But some school...
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Mass kicks off 39th Edsa anniversary celebrations
Tanks rolled from south of E. delos Santos Avenue (Edsa), while Marines advanced from the east. Above, helicopters hovered, ready for bomb runs. Amid the tension, the people fell on their knees and prayed. Fr. Manoling Francisco recalled the unfolding of the Edsa “People Power” Revolution in 1986 in his homily on Saturday, Feb. 22,...
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Cubist artist-educator holds first solo exhibition in Roxas City
Artist-educator Leo Gali opens his first solo exhibition, “Phases/Faces,” at the Ang Panublion Museum in Roxas City on Feb. 22 at 2 p.m. “Phases/Faces” showcases Gali’s versatility throughout a career that spans various disciplines, from architectural drafting and teaching of social studies in high school to book illustration and editorial cartooning. It is a reflective journey of creative...